Before long, Yang Ming returned, carrying a rabbit in his hand.
"Honey, did you shoot this?" Xiaoxiao was quite surprised. He’d only gone to set up a target and managed to bag so ga.
"Haha, just gave it a try." Yang Ming laughed, not expecting the bow and arrow to be so easy to handle. Actually, Yang Ming had so accuracy to begin with; as long as he knew how to use the bow and arrow, it wasn’t hard at all.
Xiaoxiao gave Yang Ming a thumbs-up, impressed, "Go wash up, it’s ti to eat."
"Okay."
Yang Ming put the rabbit down, washed up, and followed Xiaoxiao and the others to the main room for dinner.
At the dinner table, he heard that Yang Dong was planning to take his wife to the back mountain, and said, "I’ll go with you tomorrow."
"Sure, you co along too, it’ll be good to have soone to keep an eye out." Yang’s father quickly agreed.
After dinner, Yang Ming and Xiaoxiao took Little Liufu back to their room.
"Wifey!"
Xiaoxiao knew he was going to ask about the hazelnut trees, "Alright, I’ll be honest with you. Our family used to lease Hazelnut Mountain, so I’m quite familiar with it. That’s called a hazelnut tree, and the nuts on it are hazelnuts, a type of dried fruit, very well-known. In fact, these hazelnuts have many years of history and were even used as tribute items. I just didn’t expect you folks didn’t know about this food."
Yang Ming held his wife’s hand, not doubting her story at all. He understood these were things from her hotown. He was just worried that since he was leaving soon, he wouldn’t be able to help her, "Wifey, handling so much business, won’t it be too tiring for you?"
Xiaoxiao laughed, her interest particularly high, as if she could see piles of silver, "Not tiring at all, what’s to be tired about? I just did so talking, and when the ti cos, we’ll hire people. Not earning money when it’s there to be made, are you foolish?"
"..." Yang Ming was a bit speechless. Every ti his wife ntioned silver, she’d ask if he was foolish? Maybe he was quite foolish.
"Besides, we aren’t certain about this yet. Let’s go up the mountain tomorrow and have a look. I haven’t seen it in years; what if I’m mistaken? But if it really is the case, we’re going to make a fortune, because right now is just the season when hazelnuts are ripe. All we need to do is pick the hazelnuts and sell them, and the silver will just flow in. We don’t even have to wait for maturity, it’s like picking up free silver..."
Hearing his wife’s endless talking, Yang Ming knew she was ready to take on this matter full force again.
The next day, Yang Ming, Xiaoxiao, and Yang Dong went up the mountain early in the morning. Seeing the hazelnut trees laden with ripe hazelnuts, Xiaoxiao couldn’t contain her excitent.
"Third Sister-in-law, is this what we can eat? This hard, ball-like thing?" Yang Dong plucked a hazelnut and showed it to Xiaoxiao.
Xiaoxiao was speechless, wondering why he compared everything to a ball, but his analogy wasn’t wrong, "Yep, crack this open, and the inside is edible, so can even be bitten open."
Upon hearing this, Yang Dong imdiately threw the hazelnut into his mouth, gave it a hard bite, and cracked open the outer shell, "Pretty hard."
"The inside is edible," Xiaoxiao said, inviting Yang Ming to try it too.
The group started sampling the mountain hazelnuts there, "Tasty, right?"
"Delicious."
"Let’s pick so first to take down for the family, and then go to the Village Chief’s place."
"Okay."
They began picking hazelnuts, having brought sacks specifically for this.
As they were picking hazelnuts, soone quietly descended the mountain. This person was none other than the one who had eavesdropped outside the door the previous day.
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